Let’s start with a Crypto Thought Piece by [14 min read]. Did the Cryptocurrency Revolution Fail? Noam Levenson If we conclude that the leaders failed, but the doctrine is sound, then we simply need new leaders. And new leaders always rise. But if the doctrine is rotten, we should redirect our energy. And here are my 30 Recommended Tech Stories on Hacker Noon this week: Psssst… don’t be shy, own shares in this independent tech media site . Russian Hackers by [6 min read]. Phishing Attack: How They Hacked the USA Power Grid Anshu Sharma Instead of attacking the high-value target directly, you first get inside lower value, less protected partners — and then use simple tactics like phishing, using existing trusted relationships to compromise your final target. Tech Myth Busting by [4 min read]. Chess and Programming: Busting the Myth that All Programmers are Good Chess Players Andrii Ryzhenko Famous chess players do make good livings, but compared to Silicon Valley or India based programmers, their number is extremely small. Gaming the Lottery by [11 min read]. How one winner used math to overcome the odds Bryn Solomon In most standard lotteries, when you buy a ticket, you have an expected return of negative 50%… but with a little math, perhaps you can turn the tables and find that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Important Social Media Study by [4 min read]. The dark truth behind world_record_egg Thomas Webb So I did some number crunching …and it blew me away. Most of the pages were huge repost pages. The kinds of pages you can post anything you want as long as you pay the page owner. SEX AT CONFERENCE by [4 min read]. CES: When Sextech Collides with Misogyny Darren Mckeeman There is a lot of innovation going on in sextech, and most of it is done by women. This is not an accident. React by [7 min read]. The React Developer Tools You Should Know in 2019 Jonathan Saring The React ecosystem is moving fast, and so is the general ecosystem around components: from UI components to various APIs and Node.js modules. Cycling A to B Technology Fails by [4 min read]. Google Maps sucks for cyclists Grant Holtes The root of the issues is that Maps treats cyclists like cars that have a few extra roads, rather than a distinct mode of transport. Re-buidling ETH by , , and , [22 min read]. We started with a slightly smaller experiment: was it possible to launch a blockchain that could execute arbitrary programs? Over time, the Ethereum community began new experiments. The Year of The Ethereum Experiment Daniel Zakrisson Josh Stark Evan Van Ness by [19 min read]. What to Expect When ETH’s Expecting James Prestwich At first, ETH2.0 will source its Ether (but not its security) from the main Ethereum chain, but designers eventually plan to invert the relationship by making ETH2.0 the main chain, and Ethereum 1.X a shard chain under its management. PM Skills & Trends by [10 min read]. Product Management skills NO ONE talks about ;) Taruna Manchanda Let me tell you a secret that the product management industry is hiding from you, or maybe not saying it out loud — we don’t care ‘too’ much about the hard skills. by [9 min read]. How to Build a Product Roadmap Arpit Rai The product roadmap that comes out of this exercise will help you decide the order in which you should tackle the various ideas for new product features. by [3 min read]. “Going Agile” John Cutler They’re goal was to somehow “form an agreement” (his words) with the business to be more proactive and more….Agile! Quick DIY Development by [8 min tutorial: ]. How to convert a website into an Android app from scratch Vinay Somawat uses Android Studio, includes source code by [5 min tutorial: ]. How to make a Terminal like Portfolio Website for yourself Pradyuman Dixit uses GitHub pages Intermediate Development by [8 min read]. Are your Python programs running slow? Here’s how you can make them 7x faster. Rishabh Agrawal The findings that I have presented suggest that Python is indeed a slow language due to its dynamic nature compared to other statically-typed languages like C, C++, Java. and by [13 min read]. Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) FTW … part 2 Omer Goldberg Progressive Web Apps are here to help us bridge UX between mobile websites and apps How Top Dev Teams Do by [11 min read]. Writing Sky-high Applications: A Guide to Cloud Native Development Alibaba Tech Drawing on insights from an Alibaba developer, this article looks at the key practices cloud native developers should observe as they write these highly-autonomous applications, from ensuring elastic scalability and fault tolerance to enhancing ease of management and observation. Crypto History Lesson by [2 min read]. Bitcoin’s Biggest Hack In History: 184.4 Billion Bitcoin from Thin Air; Satoshi Hard Forks, Saves Bitcoin Charlie Shrem On Aug. 15 2010, an unknown hacker nearly destroyed Bitcoin. In-depth Crypto Trading Analysis by [18 min read]. Superalgos & The Trading Singularity Luis Fernando Molina Amateur bots are as intelligent as worms, while professional bots are as intelligent as birds. Confessions of a Digital Nomad by [4 min read]. My life as a Digital Nomad: A story about Cryptocurrencies, Javascript and Affiliate Marketing Maxence Cornet It turns out a lot of people were googling “where can I buy OMG”, “How to buy ETH”, and my website was ranking very well for those keywords. Two Two Part How-to-Hardware Series … and by [11 min read]. Keyboards for Developers, Part 1 — Let’s Talk About Laptop Keyboards part 2 Bigi Lui As a programmer, navigation keys, and in particular Home and End, are among my most-used keys when coding, and muscle memory dictates for them to be roughly in the area above arrow keys. I would especially hate for them to be hidden behind Fn modifiers! .. and by [13 min read]. This Blog Post is a walk through of the choices we’ve made about the PC Components, why we chose to get it assembled by a 3rd Party retailer: Ant-PC instead of doing it ourselves and a few suggestions on where you might be able to save some money or get a better bang for the buck. Neutron: A $4000 RTX 2080Ti (MSI) Deep Learning box (8700k/64GB/2080Ti) part 2 Sanyam Bhutani A Stats Classroom Lesson by [9 min read]. Statistical inference in one sentence Cassie Kozyrkov “Does the evidence that we collected make our null hypothesis look ridiculous?” ProductHunting by [18 min read]. C.A.T — the ultimate approach for App of The Day Peter Vu Honestly, numbers are not everything. The last 5 PH journeys have left me with lessons and connections more valuable than any type of traffic. Career Moves by [8 min read]. My last 4 years: from zero knowledge to software developer Samuel Teboul Seven years ago, as a recent Parisian MSc graduate in applied Mathematics and Actuarial Science, I joined a large international insurance company as a junior actuary. by [9 min read]. . What Tech Recruiters Actually Look for in your Resume and First Interview Geshan Manandhar In this post, 3 tech recruiters in Sydney, Australia answer what they look for in a resume/candidate profile Editor’s Note: Check out Hacker Noon’s contract roles. What to Learn Next? by [2 min read]. Why You Should Learn .net in 2019 Robert Zhu It’s Fun: Unity has become the standard for game developers, especially for mobile, AR, and VR. Unity uses C# as its primary scripting language. Last But Not Least by [9 min read]. 19 Saucy Tech Predictions For 2019 Adrien Book Change is the only constant. Until next time, don’t take the realities of the world for granted. Kind Regards, David Smooke Find great stories about: , P.S. Artificial Intelligence BioHacking , Bitcoin , Blockchain Development , Coding , Cryptoeconomics , Data Science , ETH , EOS , Learning to Code , Hacks , Ripple (XRP) , Security Tokens , Tech Economics , & Women in Tech . P.P.S. Hodl Hacker Noon shares today.

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